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Inspiring stories of midlife women redefining their next chapter. From entrepreneurs launching new ventures to authors publishing their first books, hear candid insights into overcoming mindset blocks, procrastination, and the ups and downs of pursuing a passion-fueled career and life.
Host Lynette Turner uncovers the deep desire many women feel to redefine themselves after years of caregiving, working a 9-5, or navigating significant life changes.
Through these honest conversations, you'll hear empowering stories about the courage it takes to reinvent yourself and the profound fulfillment that comes from following your passion.
It is where listeners gain confidence by hearing relatable stories of reinvention and courage. And an invitation for midlife women to transform their beliefs about midlife into a time for personal growth, expression, and transformation.
Lynette covers topics like finding a purpose, balancing motherhood and ambition, building a successful business or side hustle, and finding the courage to reinvent a lifelong career. The real-life stories in this podcast will help you in designing your second act.
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If you’ve been stuck in cravings, food noise, or that “I’ll start over Monday” loop, you’re not broken. You’re probably carrying more stress than you realize, and your nervous system is trying to find relief. In this episode, Sandy Zeldes breaks down what “hidden stress” looks like in high-functioning midlife women, why willpower keeps failing, and how cravings can be driven by emotional need instead of true hunger. We also talk about why this often hits critical mass in midlife, why chronic ...
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**New** Join my Skool community for Midlife Women Entreprenuers (its free to join!) Learn more here: https://www.skool.com/midlifewomenentrepreneurs If you want the companion worksheet and prompts for Episode 4, come into my Skool community. It’s where you’ll turn this episode into real momentum, with simple tools, reflection threads, and support from other midlife women moving through big life shifts. This episode helps you reconnect with yourself so you can move forward with more calm...
In this episode of Midlife Women Entrepreneurs, Lynette Turner sits down with a business coach to explore why writing the book first can help midlife women find clarity, confidence, and direction. Many midlife women feel invisible without realizing it. It shows up as second-guessing yourself, staying quiet, or freezing when you try to turn an idea into a business. You may know you want more from this chapter of life, but you don’t know what to offer, where to start, or how to use your experie...
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**New** Join my Skool community for Midlife Women Entreprenuers (its free to join!) Learn more here: https://www.skool.com/midlifewomenentrepreneurs If you want the companion worksheet and prompts for Episode 3, come into my Skool community. It’s where you’ll turn this episode into real momentum, with simple tools, reflection threads, and support from other midlife women moving through big life shifts. This episode helps you reconnect with yourself so you can move forward with more calm...
When parts of your business drain you, don’t quit, fix the part that’s broken. In this episode, Toni Shelaske shares how she sold three high-volume stores after 16 years, kept what she loved, and rebuilt her work around purpose. You’ll learn a simple audit process, Spark, People, Direction, Cash to decide what to keep, what to cut, and how to pivot without guilt. You’ll learn The moment that tells you it’s time to pivotHow to audit Spark, People, Direction, CashGuardrails for a values-a...
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**New** Join my Skool community for Midlife Women Entreprenuers (its free to join!) Learn more here: https://www.skool.com/midlifewomenentrepreneurs Hey, beautiful souls. I’m Lynette Turner, and welcome to The Break It Down Room, a solo series inside the Midlife Women Entrepreneurs podcast. These short action oriented episodes will drop on Tuesdays. This is where I take the lessons from over 100 conversations I’ve had with powerful, inspiring midlife women and go deeper. Not into business tip...
You’ve been responsible for a long time. But there’s a quiet midlife moment when you realize you’ve also been postponing what you really want. In this episode of Midlife Women Entrepreneurs, I sit down with Tim Packer, a former Toronto police detective who walked away from the “safe” path to become a successful artist, teacher, and author. We talk about the one word that changes everything, yet, and why the story “I’m not talented enough” is almost always a mindset problem, not a reality prob...
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**New** Join my Skool community for Midlife Women Entreprenuers (its free to join!) Learn more here: https://www.skool.com/midlifewomenentrepreneurs Hey, beautiful souls. I’m Lynette Turner, and welcome to The Break It Down Room, a solo series inside the Midlife Women Entrepreneurs podcast. These short action oriented epsiodes will drop on Tuesdays. This is where I take the lessons from over 100 conversations I’ve had with powerful, inspiring midlife women and go deeper. Not into business tip...
After 25 years in corporate HR at Pfizer, Johanna Danaher’s role was unexpectedly eliminated. In this episode of Midlife Women Entrepreneurs, Johanna shares what really happens when a long, successful corporate career ends overnight. We talk honestly about grief, fear, identity loss, and the quiet wake-up call many midlife women aren’t prepared for. This conversation explores why the corporate safety net is a myth, how to reframe “starting over” as transferable brilliance, and what it takes t...
Midlife reinvention sounds exciting until you’re the one sitting in the middle of it. If you’ve ever felt stuck, lost, or unsure who you are anymore, this conversation will feel familiar. Today’s guest is a midlife author who rebuilt her identity more than once. She left a career, raised kids, started a business, closed a business, and found her way back to writing. Her novels explore the quiet struggles women carry, the pressure to be perfect, and the hidden grief that shows up when your ide...
What if money isn’t the problem at all? What if it’s the mirror that shows you the thoughts, beliefs, and patterns shaping your life? In this episode of Midlife Women Entrepreneurs, Lynette sits down with Scarlett Stanhope, known as The Biz Hippie, to explore how your money habits reflect your identity, your safety, and the stories you’ve carried since childhood. Scarlett shares her powerful journey from perfectionism and burnout to a near-death wake-up call that forced her to see her life di...
What if confidence isn’t something you’re born with but something you build, one brushstroke at a time? In this episode, Lynette sits down with Kevin Murphy, a master illustrator and founder of Evolve Artist, whose work has appeared in National Geographic, LucasArts, and even for the Rolling Stones. After decades in the art world, Kevin now helps people from all walks of life (many starting in midlife) learn to paint realistically with zero “natural talent.” They talk about how creativi...
You’ve done the mindset work. Read the books. Tried the affirmations. So why are you still battling that voice in your head that says you’re not good enough? In this episode, Clinical Hypnotherapist Christina L. Woods breaks down how your inner critic actually works and why traditional self-help doesn’t touch the deep patterns that keep smart, capable women stuck. Christina spent 30 years in corporate leadership before walking away, healing childhood abandonment wounds, and training in ...
What does it actually mean to trust yourself again, especially after burnout or identity loss? In this episode, I talk with Martine Cohen, a former corporate attorney who was forced to rebuild her life after a traumatic brain injury. She didn’t go back to the old path. She created a new one. We explore what happens when the life you built no longer fits and how to reconnect with your inner voice. Martine shares how she moved through self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the fear of starting over...
In this episode, I sit down with SEO and AI search expert Cinthia Pacheco, founder of Digital Bloom IQ. Cinthia runs her agency from Argentina while raising her daughter and serving clients around the world. Her story shows what’s possible when you take a risk, start before you’re ready, and build your business one simple step at a time. You’ll hear how she moved from a South African digital agency to building her own company, how she shifted her offers as she learned what women actually need...
What if the real reason you feel stuck in midlife isn’t your goals, it’s your self-worth? In this raw and powerful episode, Debbie Dobbins shares how she went from burned out and disconnected to fully aligned with her feminine power and purpose. After losing millions and facing a deep personal reckoning, she realized mindset alone wasn’t enough. This conversation is about what it really takes to rise in midlife: shifting your energy, rewriting your worth story, and learning to receive w...
What happens when the business you built becomes the thing that breaks you? In this episode, Lynette sits down with Charity Brown a serial entrepreneur, author, and founder of The Happy CEO, to talk about what it takes to reinvent your life and business after burnout. Charity shares her journey from teenage mom and high school dropout to running multiple restaurants, hitting rock bottom, and rising again by doing the deep inner work. They dive into her 4 Ps framework (Power, Planning, P...
What if your childhood photo albums held the key to healing generational pain? In this intimate conversation, Lynette Turner interviews Haleh Shoa, founder of Picturli, a boutique photo archiving and legacy preservation studio based in Los Angeles. Haleh’s own story of escaping Iran as a child, rebuilding life in the U.S., and searching for identity, led her to create a business rooted in memory, meaning, and healing. In this episode, Haleh shares: How a $125,000 photo book became an emotiona...
Helene Clarkson was a 40-something mom with no design background, a former actress burned out from the business, and a woman who simply wanted better travel clothes. What started as a “how hard could this be?” idea turned into Helene Clarkson Design a global travelwear fashion brand now shipping worldwide. In this episode, Helene shares how she: Launched a fashion brand in midlife with no formal trainingWent from failed prototypes in her basement to a thriving e-commerce and retail businessBu...
What if the barriers holding you back weren’t yours to begin with? In this powerful conversation, Lynette Turner sits down with Simon Calderbank, a UK-based breakthrough coach who helps women leaders shed decades of masculine conditioning and reconnect with their intuitive power. Simon shares how being raised by three women shaped his life mission, why he wrote the viral blog post “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: The White Cisgender Man,” and what it really means to create safe, ...
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